To Lou Xiaoyi, cultivating in a place like Sand Star had both advantages and disadvantages.
The disadvantage was that the spiritual vigor was thin, which was the biggest disadvantage for cultivators at the level of Foundation Establishment. They couldn't come into contact with other forms of spiritual vigor other than the spiritual vigor of heaven and earth.
The advantage was that he was close to the stars, which could allow his entire cultivation system to be in the best state.
For cultivators who had basically met the conditions for Core Formation, their cultivation had already reached the peak of Foundation Establishment. For the time being, they didn't have an urgent need for spiritual vigor. Instead, they had some demands in terms of mental state.
In terms of breaking through to the upper realm, this place was suitable!
The upper realm of a cultivator was never a process that could be planned! Because you couldn't judge when God would open his eyes and give you a chance!
Under normal circumstances, when a cultivator's cultivation reached the peak and he had his own comprehension in mental state, he could roughly realize whether he was in the preparation stage for Core Formation.
This stage required many prerequisites. For example, Lou Xiaoyi raised his cultivation to the peak in the fifty years in the Peacock Plume. Then, he made a deep reflection on his mental state in the Fish Leaping Cliff. Only then did he begin to realize that he had reached this step.
What would a cultivator do next? Everyone had their own path to guide them. Thousands of people had thousands of paths, and none of them were alike. However, there was one thing that was the most impossible way to reach Core Formation if you just sat at home and waited for a pie to fall from the sky!
Therefore, most cultivators chose to go out, to see, to travel, to fight, to experience the world of mortals, to experience life and death … The meaning of doing so was to find their own chance!
The Way of Heaven was fair to every cultivator. Everyone would have that chance when they reached this stage. The key was whether they could find it or not. Triggering the resonance of the heart? Then, they would understand their own direction and work hard in this direction to seek a process from quantitative change to qualitative change.
Old Man Hai Toad's "Jin Dan Song": Refining into Qi and returning to Zhen One, refining Qi into Zichen.
The "Wuzhen Chapter" said: Qi was born from nothingness, and Yin and Yang were born from Qi.
Daoist Shi's "Returning to Source Chapter" said: Qi was the fate of the form.
There was the Qi of Zhen One, born before Heaven and Earth, and obtained from nothingness. It was in a trance, invisible, unseen, unheard, unobtainable. How could it condense into millet pearls?
The Saint Gai Sheng used reality to form emptiness, and form to form. The two were like the same thing. The so-called 'one' referred to the condensation of the Innate True One Qi into a grain of pearls.
The Qitong Contract said, "Branches, stems, flowers, leaves, and fruits hang down. They are the same as their roots, without losing their essence."
"Wuzhen Chapter" said, "All kinds of non-human labor, like real lead and divine machine."
The Secret Map states: Li Na Ji is the sun, fire, heart, cinnabar, dragon, and mercury; Canna Wu is the moon, water, kidney, lead, tiger, and Qi.
The Golden Jade Sutra said, "Inside the cave of the Fortune Spring, Yang energy emanates from the earth, the sundial arrives from the south, the five stars align, the sun and the moon combine."
The Pure Yang Ancestral Master once said, "Spirit, Qi, and Blood belong to the three essences, north, south, east, and west."
Almost every orthodoxy had its own unique description of Jin Dan. It was precisely because they said too much that people were at a loss for what to do!
Among them, the Shisengjing was the most direct: Three inches below the navel is the lower Dantian, four inches in radius, between the spine and the kidneys, green on the left and white on the right, yellow on the top and black on the bottom, and red in the center. It is called the Great Sea, which stores blood and Qi. It is also called the Great Middle, which is the center of the four directions of the human body. The central position is the Dantian, the Golden Embryo Divine Chamber.
Cultivators needed resources to form their Aurous Core, and for most people, this was also their goal. However, people were different. When one's ability reached Lou Xiaoyi's level, he did not need to worry about resources. The sect would automatically release all restrictions for him. It was not giving, but borrowing. There was no limit or quality. If he did not return the Dantian after it was formed, no one would pursue it. In fact, it was a form of support.
This was the inevitable strategy of every orthodoxy for their disciples. As long as you were outstanding enough, you did not need to sacrifice yourself. In the big sects, as long as you could enter the top hundreds, you would not need to worry about resources. In the small sects, as long as you could squeeze into the ranking, you would receive a lot of resources from the sect.
The resources were biased towards the top, and the top would lead the sect after they achieved something. This was a virtuous cycle.
Lou Xiaoyi did not lack resources in his storage ring. They were all provided to him by Yin Ye. Lou Xiaoyi did not want to accept them at first, but Yin Ye quickly dispelled his misgivings and told him that these things were provided by Qianxiu Peak, and were part of the reward for his sacrifice.
Lou Xiaoyi didn't really want to settle the score with Qian Xiufeng. He wouldn't be able to figure it out, and it would only make him feel distant. He was no longer the same person who had just entered the sect. He wanted to convert every bit of hard work he had put in into spirit stones. He had a high view of things. It was fine as long as he had enough for his own use. How could he really count the value of each fish's head with his fingers?
Cultivation was just this strange. When a cultivator did not have any resources, they would place all their hopes on resources. When there were enough resources, they would discover that there were more important things, just like what Daoist Wang Ding had said.
He was not in a hurry, so there was nothing to be anxious about!
It was precisely because he wanted to leave more time for himself that he sent himself to this barren desert. He was already close to a hundred and fifty years old this year. As Yin Ye had said, he was not a talented cultivator.
Cultivators with five rings and above were generally able to form their Gold Core before they were a hundred years old. He was not even close to that. Cultivators with average cultivation talent would form their Gold Core around a hundred and fifty years old. As for those with even later cultivation talent, there was no need to mention them.
The good news was that his two friends, Yan Bo and Yan Cheng, were not much stronger than him. However, he could feel that the two of them had already reached his current state decades ago. It was just that they had never found their own opportunity. When they went to Fish Leap to Observe the Sword, it was not impossible that they did not want to comprehend their own opportunity from other people's battles.
At the very most, he still had fifty years. It sounded like a lot, but in fact, it was only the time he would spend in the Peacock Plume Space. For the vast majority of cultivators who had hopes of forming their Gold Core, they would have several decades of time to either go up or remain silent!
Since Lou Xiaoyi had forced himself to this place, he had never thought of changing to another environment. To him, he could never find another place so close to the universe's starry sky, where no one would disturb him, and where he could be free!
He really dug a deep sand pit for himself in front of the Sand Pagoda. The four walls of the sand pit were reinforced with simple moisture-proof and insect-proof structures. This way, if he died, he would be able to lie down more comfortably.
He did not leave an epitaph because he was afraid that someone would rob his grave! He also did not prepare a pearl in his mouth because he was afraid that he would turn into a zombie after several hundred years!
When Lou Xiaoyi did all this, it was as if he was digging a pit for someone else. There was not the slightest ripple in his heart. This was his true nature!
He was indifferent to everything!
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